The Canada Post logo is seen on the outside the company’s Pacific Processing Centre, in Richmond, B.C., on June 1, 2017. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)

OTTAWA – The restoration of delivery service guarantees by Canada Post — three weeks after striking postal workers were forced back to work — proves the shipment backlogs Ottawa used to justify legislating an end to rotating walkouts were “fiction,” says the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.

The Crown agency announced Tuesday it had caught up on most parcel delivery backlogs that had been created by the sporadic labour disruptions that began Oct. 22.

An artist’s rendering of the future Latitude 49 luxury apartment community in Sage Creek. (DEVERAUX GROUP OF COMPANIES)Latitude 49 is a six-building complex planned for south Winnipeg. (DEVERAUX GROUP OF COMPANIES)

WINNIPEG — Ground has been broken on a new 398-unit apartment community in Winnipeg’s Sage Creek neighbourhood.

Latitude 49 will be a six-building development and include a mix of micro-units, one-bedroom and two-bedroom suites located along Sage Creek Boulevard and Burning Glass Road.

Brian Sanderson, as Santa Claus, and his partner Lillian Harris, as Mrs. Claus, are seen in this undated handout photo. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Toys & Gifts for Santa Brian – In Memory of Santa Brian TOY DRIVE, Facebook)

WINNIPEG – Brian Sanderson’s white beard and jolly demeanor landed him in Santa’s bright-red suit in Winnipeg malls, seniors centres, toy catalogues and as the mythical Christmas figure in more than half a dozen movies.

So when Sanderson, Winnipeg’s most well-known Santa’s helper, died in October at the age of 77, a group of people — his own special elves — stepped up to make sure the Christmas magic he displayed all year would continue.